New Deal Programs
New Deal program designed to create jobs building hydroelectric dams to control flooding and produce electricity
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority
An economic practice used during the 20's in which a buyer would use 10% of their own money and borrow 90% from the bank in order to purchase stock
What is Buying on a Margin
President at the start of the Great Depression, bore the blame of the Great Depression for his lack of response to a failing economy
Who is Hoover
Black Tuesday, billions of dollars lost in the stock market, wiping out thousands of investors. Led to the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929
Shanty towns built by the homeless and named after President Hoover
What are Hoovervilles
New Deal program designed to provide employment for unskilled workers, focusing on public works projects such as roads and public buildings
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Credit system in which a person could buy now and pay over time.
What are Installment Plans
Who is Franklin Roosevelt (FDR)
Name for a period of draught and severe windstorms that created large rolling dust storms that devastated the southern plains of the US
What is the Dust Bowl
A form of mass media used by FDR to inspire hope and restore the nation's confidence
What are Fireside Chats
New Deal program that provided aid for the elderly and unemployed
What is the Social Security Act
What is the Run on Banks
President that followed FDR, led America through the latter part of WWII
Who is Harry Truman
What is the Bank Holiday
What are Relief, Recovery and Reform
What are the three R's of the New Deal
New Deal program created to maintain the stability and public confidence in the banking system, insured bank deposits
What is the FDIC
What is the Domino Effect
Big conservationist, led the Rough Riders and coined "the big stick" diplomacy
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
Veterans marching on the capital for payments promised following WWI, dispersed at the order of President Hoover
What is the Bonus Army
What is Alphabet Soup
New Deal program that hired single, young men to work on public lands, parks and forests.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
US isolationist tariff that drove up the price of foreign goods with led to foreign countries also raising the taxes on American goods
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
A group of programs, that relied of deficit spending, intended to provide Relief, Recovery and Reform to the American economy during the Great Depression
What is the New Deal
New Deal program that paid farmers not to produce crops in order to drive up agricultural prices
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act